Photosynthesis is the fundamental metabolic process on earth that has successfully enabled organisms to sustain evolutionary extinction. Molecular machines operating in photosynthetic organisms could provide human society with a blueprint for a corresponding technology development to balance climate change.

This research group, lead by Professor Svein Bjelland, studies DNA base excision repair (BER). The main research interest is DNA base excision repair (BER), mainly focusing on the initiating enzyme, that is different DNA glycosylases, of this repair pathway.

The Hanne Hagland research group studies how metabolic pathways contribute to cancer growth and how metabolites are directly involved in gene regulation. Tumors are generally very heterogeneous in gene and protein expression.